2025-09-26 Merit Appeal Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board September 26, 2025 MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. No, it’s not shelved. Again, the Mayor’s Office didn’t want to pursue the radio advertising, but we’re always looking at different ways to advertise our positions. CHR. CABANAS: Why was that? Why did they not want you folks to go through the radio when you have money in the budget? MS. TOKIHIRO: I believe it was because he wanted to see some of the changes that we were trying to make to the application itself, before pursuing the radio ads. CHR. CABANAS: Okay, but it’s almost a year—and you have 52 continuous recruitments. MS. TOKIHIRO: Right, correct. CHR. CABANAS: So, that is a big concern. MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. And it’s—but it’s not that the recruitment efforts have stopped. We’ve done other things, like posting the banners that we ordered with the QR code— CHR. CABANAS: Right. MS. TOKIHIRO: —on our County parks. We’ve ordered more banners, we’ve—people don’t really read the newspaper anymore, so we’re not doing the radio adver—I mean, we’re not doing the newspaper advertisements. But— CHR. CABANAS: Well, you are doing newspaper advertisements, ‘cause you do have the Sunday ads. MS. TOKIHIRO: Right— CHR. CABANAS: When they open. MS. TOKIHIRO: Right. Correct. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah. MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. CHR. CABANAS: But when you talk about a Hiring Campaign, it’s more than newspaper, it’s more than social media—it’s taking it out there because actually your applicant pool is global. As long as the individuals have authorization to work in the United States—they could be in Europe or Hong Kong for that matter—and they could be applying for some of your more difficult to fill recruitments. So, that’s why I’m surprised that when you talked about a “Hiring Campaign” that—and with NeoGov having an online system—that it would have been taken further and actually, it’s within Page 7